...families, always prone to drugs or neglect. This is the reality of countless foster kids well into adulthood. Without stability and a family to love, they are at a disadvantage and are proven to have less academic and career success. Kids aging out of foster care tend to have lower graduation rates and have difficulty finding a job. They are forced to navigate a constantly changing life, which can lead to negative outcomes such as homelessness, financial struggles, and social anxiety. Shockingly, as of 2023, over 225,000 teenagers have aged out of the system. Only half of these children are reunited with their parents, and this number has decreased since 2021. Only 37% of teens in foster care are...
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...In California, which has the largest foster care population than any other state, the number of foster youth has tripled in the last 20 years” (Foster Care Statistics. N.p., n.d. Web). In my interview I spoke with Dena Price a long time foster parent in California. She talked about the different kinds of care they provided and the numerous children that have been taken into their home. We discussed the challenges in the foster care system and how it accounts for the instability to a child’s life. When I asked Dena about the training she received she stated, “I had to have 32 hours of training, fingerprinted for background check, TB test, physical, and yearly we need 8 hours of continuing training.” (Price, personal interview 2015). When I asked if she felt that was adequate training for what she has to deal with she said, “Yes we have more training/ongoing classes than we had as new parents with our biological sons” (Price, personal interview 2015). During the interview I found out that some of the negatives to being a foster parent is that the children often show up with just the clothes on their backs, sometimes just in a shirt and diaper. They usually have no other personal belongings so it falls on the foster family to provide clothes, personal care items, and toys. The final question I ended the interview with was what she felt needed to be changed about the foster care system. Her reply was “Communication...
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...Foster Care It was close to midnight, only a few days before Thanksgiving. There was a certain calming silence as my mother was preparing to go out to Lounge 46 with her friends. I was studying for the SAT which, at the time, I believed to be the most important exam of my life. I received an unexpected call from my grandmother, I could barely understand her. She was unable to stop sobbing long enough to tell me what happened. After she calmed down, she told me that three of her grandchildren, my cousins, were taken away by Child Protective Services. She explained that if my mom and I do not take them, they will be sent to live in a foster home. According to the Department of Children and Families of New Jersey, Child Protective Services...
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...agreement of the parent. “The term ‘looked after children and young people’ is generally used to mean those looked after by the state, according to relevant national legislation which differs between England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. This includes those who are subject to a care order or temporarily classed as looked after on a planned basis for short breaks or respite care. The term is also used to describe ‘accommodated’ children and young people who are looked after on a voluntary basis at the request of, or by agreement with, their parents. most look after children will have experienced so many disruptions in their lives. This may include painful experiences such as family bereavement. As a result the children's education may become affected and they may be below their expected class average. This will have caused from poor concentration, the child may also need specific help in their work and class before any sort of progress can be made. * Parental illness: A child may need to be looked after because their parents may be ill or cannot cope and as a result the child may have to leave the family home for a period of time. Throughout this time they may live in foster homes, residential schools or children's homes. * Family breakdown: Families break down for a number of reasons including the following substance abuse, mental health problems, bereavement, parental illness and incapacity. Children become looked after when their parents are unable to provide...
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...Children at Risk Can you imagine being put in a foster home for the reason of being neglected, abused (physically or sexually), abandonment, and involuntarily placed? Statistically, when a child is placed into the foster care system they are being moved up to 30 times in one year. When the few children in the system finally find a permanent home they are usually the age of 16. Overall, there is an estimate of one hundred thousand children waiting to be adopted and about 16% are over 16.Which means they have been in the foster system half of their life.To fix this problem we must set up trustworthy foster homes all around the world for children to stay in. We want young people to be successful, but we have to take the extra mile...
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...This journal argued that control and harshness are relevant to the development of perfectionism in children. The way parents raise their children plays a role in the way their children pursue work and activities in regards behavior to perfectionism. If a parent raises their children in an authoritative style, their children might foster adaptive perfectionism while a parent with an authoritarian style might have children who foster maladaptive perfectionism. In this journal study, Hibbard and Walton predicted that an authoritative parenting style would be positively associated with a high personal standard and negatively associated with the child's doubt in itself. An authoritarian parenting style would be positively associated with feelings...
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...Foster care is an arrangement where a minor is placed under the care of a group home, ward or private home that has been certified by the government. There have been concerns that foster care services has inadequately delivered a high-quality of care for minors, and after so much criticism society has questioned the future reliability of foster care services. Much criticism has been directed toward the inadequacy of key requirements which has in turn undermined the success of foster care. The foster care system has been facing problems relating to finances, little or no training to the care givers, and inadequate access to respite are (Reinhard, Gien, Petlick, & Bemis, 2008). In addition, the children under this care achieve little in their education and development is below average. The aim of this paper is to analyze the inadequacies facing the foster care system, the effect these inadequacies have on children and adolescents in foster care, and theories coined for explaining these problems....
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...One of the most comprehensive surveys of abuse in foster care was conducted in conjunction with a Baltimore lawsuit. Trudy Festinger, head of the Department of Research at the New York University School of Social Work, determined that over 28 per cent of the children in state care had been abused while in the system. Reviewed cases depicted "a pattern of physical, sexual and emotional abuses" inflicted upon children in the custody of the Baltimore Department. Cases reviewed as the trial progressed revealed children who had suffered continuous sexual and physical abuse or neglect in foster homes known to be inadequate by the Department. Cases included that of sexual abuse of young girls by their foster fathers, and that of a young girl who contracted gonorrhea of the throat as a result of sexual abuse in an unlicenced foster home.[1] In Louisiana, a study conducted in conjunction with a civil suit found that 21 percent of abuse or neglect cases involved foster homes.[2] In another Louisiana case, one in which thousands of pages of evidence were reviewed, and extensive testimony and depositions were taken, it was discovered that hundreds of foster children had been shipped out of the state to Texas. Stephen Berzon of the Children's Defense Fund explained the shocking findings of the court before a Congressional subcommitte, saying: "children were physically abused, handcuffed, beaten, chained, and tied up, kept in cages, and overdrugged with psychotropic medication for institutional...
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...The Impact of Foster Care on Child Development Demeka F. Gaddy Liberty University Abstract The foster care system was designed to provide a safe temporary placement for children who can no longer stay in the care of their parents or guardian. The overall goal of foster care is for the children to return home to their caregiver. If the caregiver fails to regain custody the child is placed in other living arrangements, to include foster homes. However there is a controversy over the effectiveness of the foster care system in regards to child development. Foster care has been linked to negative impacts in child development to include; physical and sexual abuse, attachment disorders, and behavioral problems that eventually lead to children being placed in multiple placements and in some cases the juvenile justice system,. Children who are in foster care are a vulnerable group due to the being removed from their home, in some cases abruptly. It has been proven that the longer children living in foster care are subject to negative development more than children who do not live in foster care. Based on these factors the foster care system needs to focus more on the needs of the child so that positive development can occur. Keywords: child welfare, abuse, child development The Negative Impacts of Foster Care on Child Development The foster care system was designed to provide a safety net for children and families and to reunite children with their biological parents if possible...
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...What affect does foster care have on children? Is it a stable and supportive environment? Foster care allows kids to have a chance to live a somewhat normal life. There are advantages and disadvantages for kids living in foster homes, but questions arise when there are foster parents that do not provide a stable environment. When we are not aware of these situations of unstable foster homes the kids placed in those foster homes will not have a good survival rate for success. Although there are parents out there that provide security for their foster children, we still need to be aware of the circumstances of kids placed in foster homes that are not safe and secure. Foster care is a great system to provide kids with families who do not...
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...daughter. She is taken from them by court order and placed in a foster home. The years pass. She comes to regard her foster parents as her real parents. They love her as they would their own daughter. When the child is 9 years old, the natural parents, rehabilitated from drugs, begin court action to regain custody. The case is decided in their favor. The child is returned to them, against her will. The courts in this case used the rule-based theory of the Three Primary Schools of Ethics to solve the problem. However, in my case I would have chosen the Care-based and Consequentialist theories. In the following paragraphs I will explain how to solve the dilemma using the care-based and consequentialist theory, explain the similarities and differences in both solutions, state whether the two schools of ethics are worthy of use in real life, and if Aristotle would have approved. The care-based theory is about putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. In this case this is what all adults need to do in order to understand all parties’ perspectives. The adult parties need to compromise. If that’s not possible, putting the love of the child first and allow the child to make the decision. Most likely the child would want to be with the foster parents and possibly have a relationship with the biological parents. All adults should look at the situation through her eyes and make a decision. The biological and foster parents should understand both parties perspective. The adults should compromise...
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...ASPIRANET FOSTER & ADOPTION PROGRAM FAMILY APPLICATION Interested in (select one): Family Name Address: Street Applicant 1 Cell Phone Applicant 1 Work Phone I. Personal Information Applicant #1 Full Name (First, Middle, Last) Maiden Name (as applicable) Date of Birth Place of Birth (City & State) Gender Religion Ethnicity (Caucasian, Hispanic, Black) Education/Years in School/Degree(s) Primary Language(s) Occupation/Current Position Employer Employer’s Phone Number Annual Gross Income I.N.S. Number (if applicable) Current or Previous Military Service II. Marital Status: Date of marriage: III. Former Marriages Applicant #1 Former Spouse’s Name Former Spouse’s Name CHF-04: 01/01/10 Page 1 of 4 Foster Care Certification Foster Care Certification & Adoption Home Phone City State Primary Email Alternate Email Applicant #2 Zip Code Applicant 2 Cell Phone Applicant 2 Work Phone DOB: / / DOB: / / Dates: to Dates: Domestic Partners State: to Currently Married City: Applicant #2 Former Spouse’s Name IV. All children in the family living in the home (include adult children) Name Relation Date of Birth Occupation/School Situation V. All children not living in the home (including adult children) Name Relation Date of Birth Occupation/School Situation VI. Others living or frequently in the home (children and adults) Name Date of Birth Relation Occupation Current Situation VII. Sleeping Arrangements Total number of rooms in your...
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...Introduction On November 2007, The Oregonian began an investigation on children in foster care that had been prescribed powerful psychiatric medications. These medications were given four times the rate of other children. Concerns have been on the rise for children that are given “psychotropic medications”. Primarily the concern is high for those children in foster care, and who receive Medicaid, because they are in a system that has lost structure of the importance of the health and welfare of children and adolescence. Also because foster children are more likely to have more emotional and social issues, and need treatment to include psychiatric medication. Psychotropic medications are those that affect the nervous system and produce many changes in behavior or awareness. These medications can be given in the form of a tranquilizer, sedative or antidepressant. Changes should be made to prevent how children receive medications, to deter overdosing and complications from misdiagnosing the child’s illness. The effect that psychiatric drugs have on children can be sometimes upsetting. Psychiatric or psychotropic medications are used to help children with behavioral impairment. Changes should be made that will benefit children in situations as mentioned. Not only in foster care but any child that is prescribed psychiatric (psychotropic) medications. Implementing change that will assure children are prescribe the right mediations, and are given the medication according to their...
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...But in certain situations they can bypass this by getting emancipated. Allowing them to be free from their parents and to make their own decisions. When used correctly emancipation for minors can be successful. Usually it is only granted to minors that have a legit case. Emancipation is not given to just anyone. Minors should be able to get emancipated if they need to escape foster care, if they are self supporting, and want to join the armed forces. A benefit for those who emancipate from their parents is they are allowed to join the military and make a better life for themselves. Adults can be skeptical of the military because they believe it is too much of a commitment or dangerous. Stateside legal writes, “The federal statute governing enlistments (10 USC § 505) allows an emancipated seventeen year old to enlist in the Armed Forces, as long as no parent or guardian is entitled to his or her custody and control.” (author). This allows for the individual to join the military without parental consent. For some, joining the military can be a positive change in their life....
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...Fire guts out in a classroom with a teacher and 7 year old children. Everybody starts rushing through the door resulting in a stampede. A child quickly runs to the window and uses that for escape. Such display of intelligence displayed by the child is referred to as creativity. Defining creativity, much as describing intelligence, is difficult to do. Creativity is a term that is open to many interpretations. Creativity is more than art, music and poetry; it is much broader and more encompassing than just the arts. Creativity is more about a thought process; it is about having a questioning mind, an exploring mind, and a mind that embraces imagination and new ideas. An interesting painting, a thought provoking writing, a unique comment, these may be examples of creative work, but the decision people make as they paint, sculpt, write and think are at the core of the creative process. Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both novel and valuable. The forms for creativity vary by culture. Samoan culture encourages creativity in dance, Balinese culture in music, the Africa Ashanti culture in wood carvings (Lubart, 1990). In each, creativity means expressing familiar themes in novel and valuable ways. Creativity creates balance and order, it gives a sense of control over external word, it helps make something positive out of a loss, bad experience or depression, maintains an individual’s integrity, helps make thoughts and feelings clear among others. Children who amaze...
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